MOSCOW: The Kremlin mentioned on Tuesday (Dec 30) {that a} Ukrainian drone assault on a presidential residence within the Novgorod area would toughen Russia’s place on a attainable peace deal to finish the combating.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed the Russian accusations as “another round of lies” aimed toward justifying extra assaults towards Ukraine and to lengthen the battle.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov famous Ukraine’s denial of the drone assault – and mentioned that many Western media had been taking part in together with Kyiv’s denial.
“This terrorist motion is aimed toward collapsing the negotiation course of,” Peskov instructed reporters. “The diplomatic consequence will likely be to toughen the negotiating place of the Russian Federation.”
The Russian army, he mentioned, knew how and when to reply.
“We see that Zelenskyy himself is making an attempt to deny this, and many Western media shops, taking part in together with the Kyiv regime, are beginning to unfold the theme that this didn’t occur,” Peskov mentioned. “This can be a utterly insane assertion.”
Peskov declined to say the place Putin was on the time of the assault, saying that in mild of latest occasions such particulars shouldn’t be within the public area.
When requested if Russia had bodily proof of the drone assault, he mentioned air defences shot the drones down however that the query of wreckage was for the defence ministry.
